Sherry Davis

Sherry Davis was the stadium announcer for the San Francisco Giants baseball team from 1993 to 1999. Davis gained immediate attention for becoming the first full-time female stadium announcer for a major league baseball team.^[1] Davis, a legal secretary, won the job in an open audition, besting five hundred other candidates.^[2] When the Giants relocated from Candlestick Park to the newly constructed AT&T Park (originally named Pacific Bell Park), the Giants declined to renew her contract^[3] and replaced her with Renel Brooks-Moon. Papers from Davis' tenure as announcer for the Giants are archived at the Baseball Hall of Fame.^[4]

In 2000, Davis became the announcer for the Saint Mary's College of California women's basketball program in Moraga, California.^[5]

Davis was born and raised in Virginia,^[6] and later graduated from College of Notre Dame of Maryland^[7] with a B.A. in Theater. She was an actress in the classics at the Norfolk Theatre Center, 1968–76, when it had taken over the old Norfolk Public Library (Carnegie, 1904).

References

1. Warren, Jenifer (26 April 1993). "A Giant Hit : Sherry Davis Makes History as Major League Baseball's First Female Stadium Announcer". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
2. "Attention, Giants Fans!". Time Magazine. 22 March 1993. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
3. Beitiks, Edvins (30 December 1999). "Giants let Davis go as stadium P.A. announcer". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
4. "Finding Aids for Archival Collections". Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
5. McManis, Sam (1 December 2000). "Former Giants P.A. Announcer Regains Her Voice at St. Mary's". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
6. "Sherry Davis". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
7. Clifford, James (12 March 1993). "Major League first: Ballpark announcer is a woman". The Free Lance-Star. Retrieved 30 October 2012.